Hypertext Webster Gateway: "squalor"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Squalor \Squa"lor\, n. [L., fr. squalere to be foul or filthy.]
Squalidness; foulness; filthness; squalidity.
The heterogenous indigent multitude, everywhere wearing
nearly the same aspect of squalor. --Taylor.
To bring this sort of squalor among the upper classes.
--Dickens.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
squalor
n : sordid dirtiness [syn: {sordidness}, {squalidness}]
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